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Biotech / Medical : Zonagen (zona) - good buy?

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To: Dauntless who wrote (1495)1/6/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: BDR  Read Replies (2) of 7041
 
Re: statistical significance v. clinical significance.

There are many interventions in medicine that have statistical significance but little clinical significance. Proving that something is 10% or 20% better than placebo may be statistically significant but not prove to be clinically useful, especially when cost is factored in, e.g. Proscar
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